Florian quickly covered his mouth.
The nausea hit him again, stronger this time. His stomach twisted, and a wave of dizziness followed right behind it. For a moment he thought he might actually throw up right there behind the curtain.
He forced himself to breathe slowly through his nose.
'Why does everything feel worse tonight?' he thought. 'Is it the stress… or is it the pregnancy?'
His head spun.
'If they're mother and daughter… why don't they act like it?' he wondered. 'And that Amethyst girl… is she also Juno's daughter?'
But she sounded younger than Cindy.
He frowned slightly.
'Juno looks… older. Too old to have a daughter Cindy's age, doesn't she?'
Adopted, maybe?
No.
Something about it didn't sit right.
Something about this entire place had felt wrong from the start.
"I'm sorry," Cindy was saying quietly. "She's just being annoying."
"Bleh," the girl called Amethyst replied, her voice dripping with playful sarcasm.
